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GENEALOGICAL 
FROST RECORD 
1635 - 1906 




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DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER 

WHO LIVED A BLAMELESS LIFE OF SELF-SACRIFICE 

FOR HER SONS 

AND FORTIFIED THEM AGAINST THE TEMPTATIONS OF LIFE 

BY HER PERFECT FAITH 



During the last four years I have gathered 
a few facts from hving relatives, and from 
church, town, county, and printed records, 
regarding the Frost family, and also many 
incidents faintly written upon the pages of 
history of New England and its towns, but 
tracing only the footprints of my own direct 
ancestry. 

These facts I have arranged somewhat 
chronologically, and printed for the purpose 
of better preservation. The historical and 
genealogical items have been gleaned from 
the following books and authors, using the 
dates, where the authors disagree, which 
appear most trustworthy. 

American Family Antiquity, by Albert 
Wells, published 1880. 

History of Cambridge, 1630- 1877, by 
Lucius R. Paige, published 1877. 

History of Billerica, 165 3-1 883, by Rev. 
Henry A. Hazen, A. M., published 1883. 

History of Middlesex County, Mass., issued 
by J. W. Lewis & Co., Philidelphia, 1890. 

Crozier's General Armory, edited by 
William Armstrong Crozier, F. R. S., pub- 
lished 1904. 

CHARLES S. FROST. 



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The first Englishmen, so far as known, to 
set foot on New England soil landed on and 
named Cape Cod in 1602. Captain John 
Smith explored the coast of North Virginia, 
from the Penobscot River to Cape Cod, in 
1 6 14, and rechristened it New England. On 
the 6th of September, 1620, exactly one hun- 
dred Puritans sailed from Plymouth, England. 
Fiske says, "These Pilgrims of the Mayflower 
were but the pioneers of a mighty host." 
Dover and Portsmouth were occupied in 1623, 
and Salem five years later; in 1629 Charles- 
town and Lynn; and immediately following 
the more numerous arrivals of 1630, Shawmut 
and Trimountain were settled and Boston was 
born. 

By the year 1634 nearly four thousand 
Englishmen had come over, and some twenty 
villages on or near the shore of Massachusetts 
Bay had been founded, including Roxbury, 
Dorchester, and "The New Town," as Cam- 
bridge was first called. And again from Fiske, 

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"In 1643, when the exodus had come to an 
end, the New England Confederacy was 
formed." 

In 1636 the General Court appropriated 
400 pounds toward the establishment of a 
college at the New Town. 

In 1638 John Harvard bequeathed his 
library and half of his estate to the new college. 
By order of the court, the college was named 
Harvard, and the new town received the name 
of Cambridge. A little prior to this event 
the family name of Frost appears in New 
England. 

In the year 1635 the Rev. Thomas Hooker, 
pastor of the church at the New Town, 
removed, with the greater portion of his fol- 
lowers, for broader grazing lands and other 
reasons, to Connecticut; only about eleven 
families are known to have remained in the 
New Town; and that the Rev. Thomas 
Shepard, with a company from England, pur- 
chased the vacated lands and houses. 

"Among the reasons which swayed him to 
come to New England," Mr. Shepard says in 
his Autobiography, "Divers people in Old 
England of my dear friends desired me to go to 

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New England there to live together, and some 
went before and writ to me of providing a 
place for a company of us, one of which was 
John Bridge, and I saw divers families of my 
Christian friends, who were resolved thither 
to go with me." Accordingly, **in the year 
1634, about the beginning of the winter," he 
embarked at Harwich, having with him 
"Brothers Champney, Frost, Goffe, and divers 
others, most dear saints," who afterwards were 
inhabitants of Cambridge. They were driven 
back by stress of weather, and the voyage was 
abandoned. But "about the loth of August, 
1635," he again embarked; "and so the Lord, 
after many sad storms and wearisome days and 
many longings to see the shore, brought us to 
the sight of it upon Oct. 2, 1635, and upon 
Oct. the 3rd, we arrived with my wife, child, 
brother Samuel, Mr. Harlakenden, Mr. Cooke, 
etc., at Boston. When we had been here two 
days, upon Monday, Oct. 5, we came (being 
sent for by friends at Newtown) to them, to 
my brother Mr. Stone's house; and that con- 
gregation being upon their removal to Hart- 
ford at Connecticut, myself and those that 
came with me found many houses empty and 

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many persons willing to sell, and here our 
company bought off their houses to dwell in 
until we should see another place fit to remove 
into; but having been here some time, 
divers of our brethren did desire to sit still and 
not to remove farther, partly because of the 
fellowship of the churches, partly because they 
thought their lives were short and removals to 
near plantations full of troubles, partly because 
they found sufficient for themselves and their 
company." 

And from the Genealogical Register, His- 
tory of Cambridge, the following: 

"Frost, Edmund, Ruling Elder of the 
Church in Camb., came here in 1635, and by 
w. Thomasine, had John, b. in England about 
1634; Thomas, b. Ap. 1637, d. young; 
Samuel, b. Feb. 1637-8; Joseph, b. 13 Jan. 
1638-9; James, b. 9 Ap. 1640; Mary, b. 24 
July, 1645; Ephraim; Thomas; Sarah, b. 
1653. Elder Frost bought of Thomas Blod- 
gett, about 1639, an estate on the westerly side 
of Dunster Street, between Harvard Square 
and Mount Auburn Street, which he sold soon 
afterwards to wid. Catherine Haddon; he 
then bought a house on the Westerly side of 

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Garden Street, near Mason Street, which he 
occupied in 1642, but sold to Richard Eccles 
in 1646. His subsequent residence is not 
known with certainty; but several circum- 
stances indicate that he occupied the estate 
on the northerly side of Kirkland Street, ex- 
tending from Divinity Hall Avenue to and 
beyond Francis Avenue, which estate re- 
mained in possession of his posterity until a 
very recent period. He was reputed to be 
rich in Faith, and manifestly enjoyed the 
confidence of Shepard and his Church. Yet 
he had trial of earthly poverty; and while 
his associate, Elder Champney, added acre 
to acre and became one of the largest land- 
holders in town, he possessed little besides 
his homestead, and his pressing wants were 
relieved by the Church. His w. Thomasine 
d. and before 1669 he m. wid, Reana Daniel, 
who survived him. He died 12 July, 1672, 
leaving to his children the example of a 
godly life." 

From other sources it appears that he was 
married three times, the second wife named 
Mary, and that Edmund in his will named 
all of his eight living children; and gives 



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something to the new college then building 
at Cambridge. It therefore appears from the 
early records that this branch of the Frost 
family in America was founded by Elder 
Edmund Frost, who was the son of John 
Frost of Ipswich, Suffolk County, England. 

The Restoration, so called, of Charles the 
Second occurred in May, 1660. In July of 
that year, two regicides. Col. Whalley and 
Col. Goffe, arrived at Boston (they were ac- 
tually Major-Generals under Cromwell). Af- 
ter a short stay in Cambridge, finding it un- 
safe to remain longer, they went to New 
Haven. Regarding their stay in Cambridge, 
from General Goffe's journal, among other 
things may be found the following: 

"23 d. 6m. — In ye evening wee vissited 
Elder Frost who reed us with great kindness 
& love esteeming it a favour yt we would 
come into yr mean habitation; assured us of 
his fervent prayers to ye Lord for us; — A glo- 
rious saint makes a mean cottage a stately 
palace: were I to make my choyce, I would 
rather abide with ys saint in his poor cottage 
than wth any one of ye princes yt I know 
of at ys day in ye world." 



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A few months before the death of Elder 
Frost, there was entered on the records of the 
Church of Cambridge the following: 

"Eldar Frost liing a longe time weake with 
others of his familly alsoe having the aque at 
the same time the church see meete to make 
a contribution for his relefe upon June i6, 
1672. The sume gathered was in cash 7.4.9. 
and in other pay 2.5.8." 

Elder Frost died in Cambridge July 12, 
1672, his wife Reana and eight children sur- 
vived him. The children married and set- 
tled, so far as the records show, as follows: 

John, married Rebeca Andrew and lived 
in Salem. Was a mason. 

Samuel m. Mary , lived in Billerica. 

Joseph m. Hannah Miller, lived Charles- 
town. 

James m. Rebecca Hamlet, lived in Bellerica. 

Ephraim, m. Hepzibah , lived in 

Cambridge on the homestead on the north- 
erly side of Kirkland Street. 

Thomas, m. Mary Goodridge, lived in 
Sudbury. 

Stephen, m. Elizabeth Woodward, lived in 
Charlestown. 



FROST GENEALOGY 
THE SECOND GENERATION. 

LIVING IN BILLERICA. 

New Town (Cambridge) was first designated 
as the prospective seat of government, the loca- 
tion offering better opportunity for defense 
and easier fortified than Boston. 

Like most ancient townships, the place had 
great enlargement and diminution in its 
boundary lines. At first very small in extent, 
and soon after enlarged north to the Merrimack 
River, including all or part of the present towns 
of Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Billerica, 
and Tewksbury. 

In a division of the land in the north por- 
tion, about 1652, in what was then called 
Shawshin (now Billerica), Mr. Edmund Frost 
received a grant of land, lot No. 59, contain- 
ing 200 acres, which he afterwards divided 
among the sons. 

Each town was founded with the same care 
and principles which shaped the colony. 
Each was to be a republic in miniature, cohe- 
rent, and from the start a compact body, 
competent to welcome or reject those who 

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sought a place among them. About nine 
families had settled in Shawshin by 1654, and 
by 1660 had increased to forty. Fifteen of 
them belong to the mother town. 

On January 4, 1663, Samuel and James, 
two brothers, sons of Edmund Frost of Cam- 
bridge, were accepted as inhabitants of the 
town of Billerica. James settled there at 
once, and soon after married the daughter of 
William Hamlet of the same place. He lived 
northeast of Bare Hill, between Hamlet and 
Ross. Dr. Samuel Frost did not settle in 
Billerica until about ten years later than his 
brother. Deacon James evidently followed 
in the footsteps of his father, living a quiet, 
religious, but uneventful life, taking little ac- 
tive part in the numerous Indian troubles, and 
no prominent part in the political life of the 
town. 

In the year 1698, the name James Frost 
appears with four others as the signers of a 
petition to the Honorable Court, in defense 
of their town as against the encroachment 
of the adjoining Concord and Chelmsford, 
which towns sought to extend their boundaries 
at the expense of Billerica. In the very few 

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old tax lists which have been preserved, his 
name appears always among those paying the 
higher amounts, the highest sums paid as 
compared with present standard being ex- 
tremely small. 

Deacon James was twice married, his first 
wife, Rebecca, died soon after the birth of 
first son, James. He soon after married Eliz- 
abeth, daughter of Sargent Thomas Foster, a 
neighbor. 

They had six sons and five daughters; one 
son, Edmund, died in infancy, and the records 
do not show any tendency of the other chil- 
dren to scatter far from their native place. 
Quite the reverse of this being true of the 
family of Dr. Samuel Frost, who was proba- 
bly three times married and had eleven chil- 
dren, only one daughter; of the sons, Samuel 
moved to Springfield, Thomas to Natick, John 
to Pennsylvania, Joseph to Charlestown, and 
Edmondand his children toDunbarton, N. H., 
and later to Fryeburg and Denmark, Me. 

The following record appears in connection 
with the early church, which indicates an 
aptness for building in the family, which 
might have developed a practising architect 

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had the opportunity been greater. The 
meeting-house, with the growth of the place, 
required enlargement. In 1679-80 Samuel 
Frost covenanted to build a gallery under the 
following specifications: He was to erect it 
"upon the beams; ... .to make one seat 
in front, & to floor it on the backside to the 
rooffe of the house, & set a bench behind it, 
such an one as that place will admit of. And 
two seats on each side, upon the beams, the 
foremost of each seat to come down as low as 
the under side of the beames, that is, the under 
side of the Joyce to be even with the cham- 
fering of the beames, & so all three fore 
seats to be even at ye bottom. The seats of 
the fore side seats shall be over the beames, and 
but a little above them. The hindmost side 
seats shall be behind and above the beames, 
each seat to be comely closed with rails and 
boords, as is usiall in such work, the fore seat 
with ballisters. The floors made comely and 
close joynted, to perserve the dirt from falling 
downe. All the seats to be finished comely, 
acording to the usiall maner of such worke, 
with a sufficient paire of staiers to them, and 
a floor to cary the seats, the hind seat at the 

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west end to reach from rooffe to rooffe. And 
to make a casement window of two foot square 
in the cleare, and put it up at ye east end of 
the house above the collarbeame. To find all 
the stuffe and nails and boords and carting 
at his owne charges; all the timber to be sound 
and good, and the work all well wrought, 
workmanlike, acording to ye nature of such 
worke (glass exempted), and the work to be 
done by ye last of March next." 

September 15, 1737, the church decided to 
build the third meeting-house; the building 
committee consisted of five, one of them being 
Sarg't. Benjamin Frost, youngest son of James. 
In a list of sittings in the meeting-house about 
1736, the following names appear: James, 
John, and Benjamin Frost. About 1667 
the first indication of dangers from the 
Indians appears, which, from this time on for 
about fifty years, hung over the pioneers of 
Billerica, and the records give ample proof 
that it was bravely met and finally con- 
quered. The people were fortunate in their 
near Indian neighbors, the Pawtucket tribe, 
who lived at Wamesit, between the Concord 
and Merrimack rivers. These Indians, thanks 

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to the fruition of the labors of Rev. John Eliot, 
remained truly friendly. 

In the list of soldiers in public sen-ice trom 
1-45 to 1762 mav be found Ebenezer, two 
Johns, and Samuel Frost. One of the Johns, 
the son of James and grandson ot Deacon 
James Frost, while serving under Captain 
Willard, was killed with two other Billerica 
soldiers, near Fort Dummer, in Brattlebor- 
ough, on June 16, 1748. 

From time to time small land grants were 
made. In i-oS a division was made, embrac- 
ing lands in the Tewksbury part ot the town. 
Eightv-one proprietors shared. Deacon James 
Frost received 4" acres, James Frost, Jr., 
^5 acres, Dr. Samuel Frost 4- acres, and 
Thomas Frost 47 acres. 

Later, other grants were made, in which 
the above-mentioned Frosts participated. 

The General Court, in response to a peti- 
tion, :jranted the setting oil the northerly 
and northeasterly part of town, with the 
result that Tewksbun- was incorporated, 1734, 
December 23. In the list ot families in the 
new town appear those of Joseph, Edmond, 
and Daniel Frost. 

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How the attempt of General Gage to seize 
the military stores of Lexington and Concord 
was met by the Middlesex towns is too well 
known to repeat. The first muster-roll of 
the Minute Company from Tewksbury, who 
marched to Lexington under the command of 
Captain John Trull, date 19th of April, 1775, 
contained the names of four of the Frost 
family, namely, Jonathan, Joseph, Jacob, and 
Ephraim Frost; and in the South East Com- 
pany, commanded by Captain Jonathan Brown, 
the name of Benjamin Frost; and in the Militia 
Company, commanded by Lieutenant Thomas 
Clark, the name of Samuel Frost. The Minute 
Company served from nine to ten days. 

The history of Middlesex County gives, in 
the list of Tewksbury men enrolled in the 
Revolutionary Army, the names of Edmund, 
Jr., Joseph, Jr., and Josiah Frost. 

Joseph, Jr., was born February 20, 1738, 
the son of Joseph, born 171 1-2, and Edmond, 
Jr., a descendent of Dr. Samuel Frost. 



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COAT OF ARMS. 

From Crozier's General Armory, a registry 
of American families entitled to Coat Armor, 
page 60, appears the following: 

Frost. Massachusetts. 

Edmund Frost, Cambridge, 1635, 

(Ipswich, Essex) (Suffolk Co.) 

Argent a chevron sable between three pel- 
lets each charged with a trefoil or. 

Crest — A trefoil between two wings all 
asure. 

Motto — E terra ad Coelum. 

In the American Family Antiquities there 
appears a colorplate Coat of Arms differing 
from the above in many points, yet credited 
to family of the same Edmund Frost. The 
Genealogical Association of New York, in 
answer to inquiry, regard this and also a third 
Coat of Arms, made reply February 5, 1906, 
as follows: 

"In regard to the three different coats of 
arms as given in your letter, the description of 
the one given in American Family Antiqui- 
ty, also the one given by Fox-Davis in The 



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Art of Heraldry is not that of Edmund Frost 
of Cambridge, Mass. The first belongs to 
the Frost family of the county of York, Eng- 
land, and the other to that of the Frost fam- 
ily of the county of Montgomery, Wales." 

The arms granted to the family from 
which Edmund Frost was descended are the 
ones given in "Crozier's Armory." 

From American Family Antiquity may 
be found the following brief reference to 
the family in England. 

Some idea may be found of the eminence 
and importance of the members of the Frost 
family from the account given in "Rymer's 
Foedera" of the Acts of the Kings of England, 
also possessions of the family in various parts 
of Great Britain, by reference to the "Rotuli 
Hundredorum" (rolls of the hundreds) of 
England, published by command of His 
Majesty King George III., A. D. 1 8 1 2, where 
they may be found holding manors and 
public offices in many of the counties of the 
Kingdom. They were intimately connected 
with King Edward HI. in the fourteenth 
century. Some of the names appearing in 
the above-mentioned records are: 

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"Waltero Frost," A. D. 1340. 

"Williemus Frost," i8th August, 1359. 

"Thomas Frost," ist March, 1363. — Let- 
ters of the King to the Governor and Treas- 
urer of Calais, to resign the government of 
the City of Calais to Thomas Frost and other 
Aldermen. 

EARLY MAINE FAMILY. 

One year after the arrival of Elder Ed- 
mund, another Frost family found a home 
in New England. About 1636 Nicholas 
Frost came to the Piscataqua River from 
Southwestern England, and settled at the head 
of Sturgeon Creek. He brought with him 
his son Charles, a lad of about four years 
old, born in Tiverton, Devon County, Eng- 
land. Charles was a member of the General 
Court from 1658 till 1669. Also a Colonel 
in the Maine regiment, and participated in 
the Indian wars. He was ambushed and 
killed by the Indians, because of his treachery 
to them in a time of peace. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE FAMILY. 

There was born on the 26th of April, 
1720, in New Castle, N. H., George Frost, 

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who became a jurist. He was the son of 
John Frost, a commander in the British 
navy, who died 1732. George received a 
pubUc school education and commercial 
training at Kittery Point, and followed the 
sea for about twenty years. In 1764 he 
married and settled down in Durham, N. H. 
He was judge of common pleas of Stafford 
County, from 1773 to 1791, and for many 
years chief justice, and was a delegate to the 
Continental Congress in 1777-79. He died 
2ist of June, 1796. 

At the present day there are many Frost 
families in Maine, New Hampshire, and Mas- 
sachusetts, and others in fewer numbers scat- 
tered throughout the country. In New 
England the Frost name is associated mainly 
with the towns near Boston, Mass., and Ber- 
wick, Wells, Kittery, and Bethel, Me., and 
Marlborough, N. H. The original or first 
ancestor in this country of many of these 
families does and probably will remain un- 
known; undoubtedly many descended from 
the pioneers before named. The majority of 
the families in and around Boston and Marl- 
borough, N. H., trace descent direct from 



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Elder Edmund Frost of Cambridge, A few- 
bearing the name have achieved distinction ; 
among the number may be found: 

James Henry Paine Frost, originally of 
Bethel, Me., born 1825. He became a 
preacher, doctor, and educator. 

John Frost, born in Kittery, Me., 1738, 
served as an officer in many campaigns, and 
left the Continental Army with the rank of 
Brigadier-General. He retired to Kittery and 
became a judge of the Court of Sessions. 

Rufus Smith Frost, born in Marlborough, 
N. H., 1826. A merchant of Boston, phi- 
lanthropist, and held many public offices. 
President of the Boston Board of Trade 
Trustee of Wellesley College. 



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ABSTRACTS OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASS., 
WILLS AND DEEDS. 1 750-1 840. 

Middlesex Co. Probate Rec.^ Sooj. 

Administration on the estate of Joseph Frost of Tewks- 
bury granted to widow Abigail Frost. Joseph Kittridge 
and Daniel Kittridge, bondsmen. 

March 18, 1750-1. 

Inventory of Joseph Frost, Junr., Sept. 23, 1751. 

Account — Apr. 25, 1763. 

Admx. prays allowance for — 

It. Interest on money advanced by dec'd's eldest son. 

" for care of the two youngest children & support 
of deceased's mother. 

Division of real estatfe — Apr. 11, 1761. 

Heirs named — wid. Abigail, Ephraim (eldest), Joshua, 
Joseph, Jonathan, Benjamin, Sarah, Mehitabel & Eliza- 
beth. 

Middlesex Co. Deeds ^ lo^-igi. 

Ephraim Frost of Tewksbury, husbandman, conveys to 
Jonathan Shed, of T. — consideration ;^82-4-8 — his interest 
in ^ of the land of Joseph Frost of Tewksbury, deceased, 
62 acres, bounded: Beginning at a stake W. on the 
widow's thirds to said Shed; N. Stephen Osgood to a 
stake; so on Joseph Blanchard's wives land to a pine 
tree; then S. W. on Kettridges land, &c. 

Dated Apr. 5, 1764. 

(Signed) Ephraim Frost. 

her 

Mary X Frost. 
Wit. Jonathan Frost. '^^^'^ 

" Elizabeth Kittridge. 
Reed. May 10, 1791. 

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Middlesex Co. Deeds ^ 74-~l' 
Ephraim Frost of Tewksbury, yeoman, conveys to 
Thomas Kittridge of T. 3^ acres in Tewksbury on 
both sides of Strong Water Brook, bounded: E. highway 
from Tewksbury to Andover to Richard Taylor's land; N. 
to Samuel Marshall; W. Marshall and John French to 
heirs of Joseph Richardson; S. Stephen Osgood. 
Dated Feb. 6, 1772. 

(Signed) Ephraim Frost. 
Wit. Wm. Stickney. 

" Hannah Stickney. 
Reed. Sept. i, 1772. 

Middlesex Co. Deeds., 105-201. 

Ephraim Frost of Tewksbury, laborer, releases to Joseph 
Kittridge of T. all interest by inheritance and by purchase 
of my brother Joshua Frost in land set off for my mother 
Abigail Fisk formerly wife of my father Joseph Frost 
with one half the house and barn, bounded by Nathl Clark, 
Joseph Kittridge, Simeon Kittridge, Jonathan Shed. 

Also 15 acres between two roads, one from Tewksbury 
meeting house and the other from Andover by Stephen 
Osgood's. 



Dated May 16, 1791. 

Wit. Abial Brown. 
" Polly Brown. 
Reed. May 16, 1791. 



(Signed) Ephraim Frost. 



Middlesex Co. Probate., 5986. 
Administration on the estate of Ephraim Frost of 
Tewksbury, yeoman, granted to Ephraim Frost, his son, 
his widow, Ruth Frost refusing administration. 

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Oct. 3, 1826. 

Bondsmen Hermon Marshall and Josiah Brown. 
Debts to — Aaron Frost, Francis Phelps^ Rebecca Symms. 
Inventory — The homestead 83 a. & one undivided half 
of a meadow in the lower great meadow. 

Middlesex Co. Deeds., 2^4.-88., 2yg-^6i^ J28-24, 

Ephraim Frost of Tewksbury administrator of the 
estate of Ephraim Frost late of T. sells at Public Vendue 
to Bravitz Gray of T. 12 a. 23 rds. Jan. 15, 1828. 

As above to 'Jacob Coggin., clerk., 6 a. Jan. 15, 1828. 
" " " Samuel Clark Jr. 11 a. Jan. 8, 1833. 

Woburn Farm Records. 

Rev. Jacob Coggin, of Tewksbury m. Mary Symmes 
of Woburn. 

Middlesex Co. Deeds., 330-48 §. 

Ephraim Frost of Tewksbury to Jacob and Abner 
Frost of T. quits claim to estate in eastern part of T. 
bounded — from N. E. corner of Daniel W. Mace by road 
W. to Henry Kittridge; S. to Bravitz Gray; E. & S. E. 
by Samuel Clark to road. 

Also piece of meadow in Eastern part of T. 
Dated Apr. 19, 1834. 

(Signed) Ephraim Frost. 
Samuel A. Rogers. Rebecca Frost. 

William Rogers. 
Sarah Frost. 
Reed. Apr. 21, 1834. 

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Middlesex Co. Deeds^ j2^-8i. 
Mortgage from Herman Frost of Tewksbury to Bravitz 
Gray of T. of his share in the undivided estate of Ephraim 
Frost late of T. 

Dated June 4, 1833. Herman Frost. 

Marshall Preston. Sarah Frost. 

Jacob Frost. 
Cancelled Oct. 31, 1834. 

Middlesex Co. Deeds., /j.02-21., /j.2g-l68. 
Abner & Eliza Jane Frost of Tewksbury with other 
heirs of Samuel Saunders of T. dec'd release interest in 
estate. 

Aug. 14, 1840. 

Abner Frost, Tewksbury, to Hugh Rogers of Lowell 
land in T. the same conveyed to Herman Frost & 
Isaac Frost to Abner Frost, 1834. (Bk. 336-17.) 
Dated May 22, 1843. 

(Signed) Abner Frost. 

Eliza Jane Frost (wife.), 
Ruth Frost, 

(wid. of Ephraim Frost, dec'd.). 
Herman Frost. 
Reed. June 12, 1843. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

**Edmund^ Frost [son of Elder John Frost of Ips- 
wich, England] was of Cambridge 1635, with wife Thom- 
asine who died before 1669. He died July 12, 1672. 
Elder Edmund Frost came to Massachusetts Colony in 
ship Great Hope in 1635, and settled in Cambridge. 
Children : 
John b. about 1634; m. Rebecca Andrew; res. 

Salem. 
Thomas b. Apr. — 1637; d. 

r Mary 

Samuel b. Feb. — 1637-8; m.< Eliz. Miller; res. 

( Bellerica. 
Joseph b. Jan. 13, 1638-9; m. Hanna Miller; res. 
Charlestown. 

{Rebecca Hamlet. 
Eliz. Foster ; res. 
Bellerica. 
Mary b. July 24, 1645. 

Ephraim b. ; m. Hepzibah ; res. Cam- 

bridge. 
Thomas b. ; m. Eliz. Goodridge ; res. 

Sudbury. 
Sarah b. 1653. 

Authority : Paige's Cambridge. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

James^ Frost (Edmund') bom in Cambridge, Mass., 
Apr. 9, 1640; married Dec. 7, 1664, Rebecca" Hamlet 
(William'). She died July 20, 1666, and he married Jan. 
22, 1666-7, Elizabeth' Foster (Thomas'), who died 1726. 
He lived in Billerica, and died Aug. 12, 171 1. 

Children: 

{Hannah 
Mary Beard, wid. 
of Andrew. 
r Rebecca Farley. 
Thomas b. Oct. 18, 1667; m. < Hannah Richardson. 

( Deborah. 
John b. Nov. 14, 1668; d. Mar. 3, 1668-9. 

Samuel b. Feb. 28, 1669-70; m. Hannah ; res. 

Tewksbury. 
Elizabeth b. Nov. 6, 1672; m. Peter Corneal. 
Edmund b. May 14, 1675; d. May 18, 1675. 
Mary b. May 6, 1676; m. John Walker. 

Sarah b. July 15, 1678; m, Nathaniel Howard. 

Hannah b. Jan. 31, 1680-1. 
**Joseph b. Mar. 21, 1682-3 J "^- ^^^^^ (French) Flint. 
Abigail b. Aug. 23, 1685; m. Ephraim Kidder. 

{Mary Stearns. 
Hannah Richardson, 
wid. of Jonathan. 
Authority : Hazen's Billerica. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

Joseph^ Frost (James^, Edmund') born in Billerica, 
Mass., Mar. 21, 1682-3; married April 5, 17 10, Sarah 
(French) Flint of Charlestown [Wyman's Charlestown], 
daughter of John French. He died Dec. 28, 1737. 
Residence, Tewksbury. 

Children : 
**Joseph b. Jan. 22, 171 1-2. 
Sarah b. May 31, 1 7 16. 

Benjamin b. Mar. 6, 1717-8. 
Ephraim b. June 9, 1721. 

Authority: Hazen's Billerica. 

Wyman's Charlestown. 
Tewksbury Town Records. 



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Joseph* Frost (Joseph^, James', Edmund') born in Bil- 
lerica, Mass., Jan. 22, 171 1-2; married Oct. 25, 1731, 
AbigaiP Kittridge (Daniel'). He died Jan. 29, 1751, and 
she married Mar. 21, 1755, Ebenezer Fisk. Residence, 
Tewksbury. 

Children : 
**Ephraim 
Abigail 
Mehitabel 
Joshua 



Joseph 

Jonathon 

Benjamin 

Sarah 
Mehitabel 
Elizabeth 
Daniel 



May 13, 1732; m. Mary Patten. 

Mar. 6, 1733-4; d- Apr. 30, 1749. 

Sept. 4, 1736. 

Apr. 3, 1737; living ij6i; m. Rachel 

Saunders Jan. 3, 1764. 

Feb. 20, 1738; m. Austice Downing, 

Sept. II, 1759; res. Marblehead 1791. 

Feb. 20, 1740; m. Hannah Saunders; 

d. Sept. 16, 181 1. 



Feb. 10, 1742; 



m. Sarah Baldwin ; d. 



Jan. 5, 1806. 
b. Feb. 10, 1742; living 1761. 
b. June 4, 1745; living 1761. 
b. Aug. 14, 1747; living 1761. 
b. Aug. 14, 1747 ; d. before 1761. 
Authority : Hazen's, Billerica. 

Tewksbury Town Records. 
Middlesex County Records. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

Ephraim' Frost (Joseph*, Joseph^ James% Edmund^ ) 
born in Tewksbury May 13, 1732; married Dec. 5, 1754, 
Mary Patten, dau. of Kendall and Sarah (Kittridge) Patten, 
born Feb. ii, 1732; died Oct. 7, 1791- He died Dec. 
10,1800. Residence, Tewksbury. 

Children : 

Joseph b. June 25, 1755- 

Molly b. July 25, 1757; d. Jan. 3, 1808. 

Joshua b. June 24, 1759. 

Dorcas b. June 23, 1761 ; d. 

Dorcas b. Sept. 17, 1763; m. Amos Saunders, Apr. 

21, 1789. 
Rebecca b. Apr. 16, 1766. 
**Ephraim b. Sept. 25, 1768; m. Ruth Phelps. 

Rhoda b. Mar. 23, 1771 ; m. Samuel Saunders, 

Dec. 22, 1796. 
Abial b. May 12, 1773; m. Mary Foster, Nov. 

28, 1799. 
Nancy b. Apr. 16, 1776. 

Authority : Tewksbury Town Records. 
Tewksbury Church Records. 
Middlesex County Records. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

Ephraim'* Frost (Ephraim^ Joseph^ Joseph^, James% 
Edmund') born in Tewksbury, Mass., Sept. 25, 1768; 
married before 1805, Ruth Phelps, daughter of Joseph 
and Ruth (French) Phelps, born Aug. 30, 1771 i living 
1843 [Middlesex Deeds, 429-168]. He died Aug. 15, 
1826. Residence, Tewksbury. 

Children : 
**Ephraim b. July 11, 1805; m. Rebecca Symms. 

Herman b. Feb. 22, 1807; m. Sarah 

Jacob b. Sept. 19, 1808. 

Abner b. May 21, 18 10 ; m. Eliza Jane Saunders; 

res. Lowell, 1844. 
Isaac b. Mar. 12, 18 12. 

Authority : Tewksbury Town Records. 
Tewksbury Church Records. 
Middlesex County Records. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

Ephraim' Frost (Ephraim**, Ephraim^, Joseph*, Joseph^ 
James", Edmund') horn in Tewksbury, Mass., July ii, 
1805; married Dec. 28, 1826, Rebecca Symms, who 
died Nov. 10, 1859, aged 54 years ; "born in Woburn." 
He died July 11, 1842. Residence, Tewksbury. 

Children : 

Mary Elizabeth b. Apr. 27, 1827 ; d. Sept. 8, 1847. 

Ann Maria b. Sept. 6, 1828; m. H. A. Marshall; 

d. in Clinton, Mass., 1846. 
Jacob Augustus b. Nov. 15, 1831; d. in Boston. 
**Ephraim Albert b. Apr. 22, 1833; "^- Eunice M. 

Jones. 
Sarah b. about 1835; d. 

Abby Rebecca b. May 25, 1837; living 1906, Lan- 
caster, Mass. 
Authority : Tewksbury Town Records. 
Tewksbury Church Records. 
Middlesex County Records. 
Family Records. 



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FROST GENEALOGY 

Albert Ephraim^ Frost (Ephraim", Ephraim'^, Ephraim^, 
Joseph*, Joseph^, James% Edmund') born in Tewksbury, 
Mass., April 22, 1833. Married Eunice M. Jones of 
Newport, Vermont, born Feb. 7, 1831, died in Lewiston, 
Maine, July 17, 1902. He died March 7, 1897. Resi- 
dence, Lewiston, Me. 

Children: 
**Charles Sumner b. Lewiston, Me., May 31, 1856. 

Frank Lester b. Lewiston, Me., July 31, 1858. 

("Helen M. Young, Sept. 26, 

m i ^^^^• 

I Carrie Z. Lang, April 4, 

[^ 1900, 

Walter Albert b. Lewiston, Me., Dec. 10, 1861. 

Married Julia Seaton, daughter of 

Chauncey Seaton of Chicago, 

Dec. 31, 1890. 
Woodbury Gillman b . Lewiston, Me., Jan. 28, 1868. 

Married Edith Lillian De Groff 

of Athens, Pa. Married Oct. 2, 

1905. 
Wilfred Percy b. Lewiston, Me., Feb. 12, 1875. 

Authority: Family Records. 

Charles Sumner" Frost (Albert Ephraim% Ephraim') 
Ephraim*^, Ephiaim'^, Joseph*, Joseph*, James', Edmund', 
born May 31, 1856, in Lewiston, Maine. Married in 
Chicago, 111., January 7, 1885, Mary Hughitt, daughter 
of Marvin Hughitt, of Chicago, 111. Residence, Chicago, 
until May 31, 1897, ^^^^^ ^^'^ ^^^^ Lake Forest, HI. 

Children: 

Margaret b. in Chicago, November 22, 1890. 

Marvin Hughitt b. in Chicago, January 12, 1893. 

Virginia b. in Lake Forest, May 14, 1901. 

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